Patent Search

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS | PATENT SEARCH   Intellectual property rights, patent search gives a very broad description. Patent search is a process by which prior inventions or ideas are examined with a goal to find information that bears close similarity to a given patent or proposed invention.   Patent search are of different kinds and it is hard to capture the essence of each type in a single description. The patent search may include documents searched in U.S. foreign patents, published patent applications, non-patent literature, product literature and scientific journals and databases.   Patent search should be done for various reasons, they are as follows:   v     An inventor would like to make sure his invention is unique before he spends time and money to obtain a patent. v     A company would like to produce a product, and even though they do not wish to patent the product they want to make sure that they do not get sued by someone else that might have already patented the idea. v     Patent search is made to make the valid search for any companies. v     Patent search is made for researchers who like to know the list of the most recent patents in a particular field which would help to guide his research.   There are two types of patent searches they are Quick Search Advance Search Quick search lists the most common search fields. Search can be done for a word or a simple phrase or patent number in any listed fields. Search in more than one field at a time can be done. Quick search also has additional features like word stemming, sort order and date range to further enhance your search.   Advance search is commonly used to create complex queries to search multiple fields using field abbreviations. Boolean operator, nesting and wildcards can be used in advance search. Word stemming, sort order and date range are also present to further enhance your search.   Patent search consist of the Boolean operator which helps to combine words or phrases to broaden or narrow the search. A Boolean operator can be used to specify what you want and what you do not want while searching.  Some of the Boolean operators are NOT, AND and OR.   The words that are to be searched can be enclosed within parentheses or brackets to specify the order in which they should be processed. Information within the parentheses is read first and then the information outside the parentheses. If there are more than two parentheses, the inner one is first read and then the next till the whole query is interpreted.   Proximity patent search helps you to specify how near/distant the search terms should be. You cab specify the distance or nearness of the terms searched as whole numbers.   Thus the patent search is most valid for researchers, companies, and scholars to know the broad description of the prior invention.

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